There’s a guy in my building that drives one regularly to work.  Brown on brown.  I don’t think he dailys it, but I see it a couple times a month so he maybe drives it weekly.  Never met him but I’m impressed by his who-cares attitude and presumably bottomless wallet.

A very close friend has been a producer on this show almost since the beginning. So I’m bummed for him, although I agree the show has run its course.

I don’t love AL but I agree about tired stereotypes. I wonder if Justin knows what kinds of things they really do in AL? Because it isn’t BMWs but it does rhyme with docket science.

As an owner of a Porsche SUV, I think the Aston is far better looking. I still think going for pretty in an SUV is the wrong way to go - utilitarian chic is better (Defender, G, Bronco, Wrangler, etc.) - but this one is high on the list of nice looking ones.

“Delta says it will re-accommodate passengers whose travel has been impacted by the service suspensions.”

Crack pipe. Get a S55 with the same motor and better equipment for less than 1/2 the money with less miles. I had one. It’s still fast. Use the extra cash you saved to pay for maintenance, sell it when you use up the reserve money. Who knows maybe you will get lucky?  Here’s the closest one to me, 103k miles for…

I have a friend that dailys a VW Westfalia. End of the world is probably 80/85 mph. A few years ago we were driving back from LA to SF in my S55 and she took over at Bakersfield. I’m DJ’ing, chatting, whatever, and she’s driving away.

Buck ten. Ticket was for 90. Not a bad write-down. I assume she pulled one of these:

Not arrested.  Expensively.

My girlfriend borrowed my Cayenne to make a trip last week. She called crying saying she might get arrested since she was going over 100. She’s not even a crazy fast driver, but it’s a fast car and stable at high speeds plus there was no traffic, so she got complacent.

Funny enough, I considered the S5 Sportback enough to go drive it.  I was working with Tom and I told the salesman that I was looking a reasonable price - not the best price ever but in the game - and I knew what to expect because I was working with a consultant on the purpose and gave him a ballpark number (that came…

First year model?  Apparently they had QC issue where FCA was putting the non-QF fuel pumps in the QF models.  That has been sorted out.  Mine has been trouble free (except for needing new rears at 3500 miles which is on me).

As readers of this site can intuit from the alphabet soup in my handle I currently have a Giulia QF. It’s amazing to drive. I didn’t get anywhere near $20k off MSRP on mine and I still think for the price it’s a great car. Waaaaay more fun that anything in a similar class that I drove at the time or since.

It’s been a while since I lived in NY but IIRC it’s a flat portion PLUS a variable portion keyed to sales tax rate (and therefore has local variation).  Similar in CA where I am now (there’s sales tax on top of the flat rate), but not that way in most states.

My first new car was a 90 RX7 convertible, and I had it for 8 years - my longest period of owning a single new car. Not as raw as the original or as supercar-beating as its successor, the FC was a great GT car. Still one of my favorites I have owned, but if I was going to buy an RX7 today it would be an FD.

Oh yeah I saw this earlier when I was looking for a DB5.

I’m in if we put a Venmo/GFM together.

As a long-time BMW fan, a prior owner of an 850i 6SP and an M6GC, and a huge car person, I was pretty sure I would get an M8. Then I went and looked at it and just - meh. I’m sure it’s super competent but it aroused zero passion. I’d rather get another i8, which if less competent as a car at least has that ineffable…

Sure, that’s about where I am based on rank speculation.  So a 15% increase in total order pull-backs, and if the truck is as relatively good as the Model 3 then they sell a bunch more later to people that didn’t have a reso.  Seems more likely than the huge increase imagined by the OP.

Love me a good undebunkable and fact-free conspiracy theory, but given Tesla’s connection to people with large stores of personal wealth if they were gaming that way you’d see much higher number of reservations.  (Plus, you know, that would get Musk or whomever really in the cross-hairs of the SEC.).